"Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons," Bush told us in January.

No such weapons have been found. The CIA may have "miscalculated" estimates of Iraq's weapons threat. British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces a political crisis over his administration's alleged misuse of Iraqi weapons information.

Meanwhile, Bush administration officials and other revisionists have begun to diminish the threat Iraq's weapons played as justification for the war and to tout its outcome regardless of the stated justification.

But Americans remember why we were told our treasury must be depleted and our sons and daughters put at risk. Ultimately, the administration's fate may rest on whether it told us the truth.